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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Brother Boxer in Act II, where has David been spending time?
(a) At school.
(b) In church.
(c) On the street.
(d) In bars.

2. Who cries in Act II?
(a) Margaret.
(b) Odessa.
(c) David.
(d) Luke.

3. Who says in Act II, "The way that box is going, you wouldn't of hear the Holy Ghost come in"?
(a) Sister Moore.
(b) Margaret.
(c) Odessa.
(d) Sister Boxer.

4. When Margaret was delivering their baby, where was Luke?
(a) On the road.
(b) Drunk and at her bedside.
(c) In a nightclub.
(d) In jail.

5. What concern does Sister Sally bring up to the others during Act II?
(a) Why David hasn't been in church.
(b) Why they can't move to a better building.
(c) Why the pastor hadn't visited a sick parishoner.
(d) Why they had to pay so much for a window.

6. Three women are in the kitchen when Act II begins. Who else is in the scene?
(a) Margaret.
(b) Brother Boxer.
(c) David.
(d) Luke.

7. Who is laid in the churchyard that Margaret refers to in Act II?
(a) A pastor friend.
(b) Baby daughter.
(c) David's brother.
(d) Margaret's mother.

8. In Act II, who says that it's the man who's supposed to lead, not the woman?
(a) Sister Boxer.
(b) Sister Moore.
(c) Brother Boxer.
(d) Luke.

9. Who mentions David leaving home?
(a) Margaret.
(b) David.
(c) Luke.
(d) Odessa.

10. Who says, "The way that box is going, you wouldn't of hear the Holy Ghost come in"?
(a) Sister Moore.
(b) Margaret.
(c) Brother Boxer.
(d) Odessa.

11. What is on the record album that David is playing?
(a) Dizzy Gillespie.
(b) David playing piano.
(c) Luke playing trumpet.
(d) Luke playing trombone.

12. In Act II, Brother Boxer insinuates that the congregation paid for what household item?
(a) New furniture.
(b) A washing machine.
(c) Food.
(d) Frigidaire refrigerator.

13. When Brother Boxer says, "But he got trumpets or some kind of horn in his blood," who is he referring to?
(a) Luke.
(b) A Philadelphia church member.
(c) Brother Stanley.
(d) David.

14. Who says, "he dying in his sins" during Act II?
(a) Sister Boxer.
(b) Brother Boxer.
(c) Odessa.
(d) Sister Moore.

15. When the characters who were talking in the kitchen at the beginning of Act II exit to the church, who comes into the home?
(a) A thief.
(b) Margaret.
(c) David.
(d) Ida.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Act II, Margaret is asked how she returned home from Philadelphia. Her answer was what?

2. Who leaves to look for David in Act II?

3. Who enters the church during the last line of a song in Act II?

4. In Act II, Sister Moore suggests that Margaret has engaged in another wrongdoing. What is this wrongdoing?

5. In Act II, when does David say that he stopped believing?

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